IAC Over 120 million women are affected by Female Genital Mutilation.... Every Year, an estimate of 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), IAC works to promote the basic human rights of women and children by campaigning against FGM and other harmful traditional practices while promoting beneficial practices. Our Goal Our goal is to eliminate female genital mutilation, and other harmful traditional practices including child marriage, abduction, nutritional taboos, widow inheritance, wife sharing, practices associated with childbirth, and skin-cutting practices like scarification and tattooing, which not only constitute serious health problems but also violate the basic human rights of women and girl children Thereby bring a reduction to morbidity and mortality rates of women and children through the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and other harmful traditional practices. Promoting traditional practices, which are beneficial to the health and well being of women and children, and thus advocating at national, regional and international levels on the importance of actions against harmful traditional practices. The Inter-African Committee collaborates closely with: Governments UN Agencies Non-governmental Organizations (local and International ) Community Based Organizations Civil society Other stakeholders
Over 120 million women are affected by Female Genital Mutilation....
Every Year, an estimate of 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), IAC works to promote the basic human rights of women and children by campaigning against FGM and other harmful traditional practices while promoting beneficial practices.
Our goal is to eliminate female genital mutilation, and other harmful traditional practices including child marriage, abduction, nutritional taboos, widow inheritance, wife sharing, practices associated with childbirth, and skin-cutting practices like scarification and tattooing, which not only constitute serious health problems but also violate the basic human rights of women and girl children
Thereby bring a reduction to morbidity and mortality rates of women and children through the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and other harmful traditional practices. Promoting traditional practices, which are beneficial to the health and well being of women and children, and thus advocating at national, regional and international levels on the importance of actions against harmful traditional practices.
The Inter-African Committee collaborates closely with:
WHO Releases Strategy Condemning Medicalizati
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The World Health Organization released the new inter-agency global strategy:
"Global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation"
signed by 5 UN agencies and 6 professional organizations, was in close collaboration with NGOs.
This document aims to eliminate the performance of Female Genital Mutilation by health-care providers.
New Publication
2009 IAC Annual Report
CONGO held the Civil Society Development Forum.
Please click to read the Outcome Document of CSDF 2010 Main Component in New York
THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S CHILDREN (SOWC) Special Edition
Celebrating 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the child
Click here to download SOWC Report
Executive Director of IAC Bags an Austrian parliament award for her fight against Female Genital Mutilation
On the 26th of April, the Executive Director of the IAC-Inter-African Committee, Mrs Berhane Ras-Work, an icon of the fight against FGM, was presented with Austria 's highest Order of Merit by Barbara Prammer, President of the Austrian Parliament, at a grand ceremony in Vienna . This award is in recognition of her over 25 years struggle to bring an end to the gruesome practice of FGM. Read more...
THE REPORT OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Click here to download
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